Naps may be more important that you think.
Toddlers between two and a half and three years old who miss only a single daily nap show more anxiety, less joy and interest, and a poorer understanding of how to solve problems, says Monique LeBourgeois, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her results indicate that insufficient sleep alters the facial expressions of toddlers—exciting events are responded to less positively and frustrating events are responded to more negatively.
Read more here on how naps help toddlers “face” the day.
